GREEN JOBS
3.9 milion green workers will be needed in the next 5 years,
half cannot be found.
From these data and the desire to highlight the problem, as well as design a solution starts the initiative signed by IEG and Ecomondo: Green Jobs & Skills.
As part of the broader project dedicated to innovation, which includes young companies with Start-Up&Scale-Up, and Lorenzo Cagnoni Award, Green Jobs aim to be the meeting place between demand and supply of skills and work but also a valuable opportunity for guidance.
THE PROJECT
Aimed at young people who have just graduated from university, high school seniors from technical institutes and beyond, young professionals entering the world of work, workers who want to turn their experience towards sustainability-related fields, and companies increasingly committed to the ecological transition, Ecomondo with Green Jobs & Skills provides a physical and digital space for Green Job Dating and a day dedicated to skills, orientation and training.
The project insists on the need to involve the new generation, which is already very aware, making them an active part of the labor market and economic sectors related to sustainability, but it also aims to help companies that have always been part of the network.
SCENARIO
According to the latest data from Unioncamere, 3.9 million new green workers will be needed within the next 5 years. The demand for sustainability-related skills will cover 65% - intermediate level and 41% - high level of the entire projected employment needs, respectively.
The greatest demand for personnel is oriented toward those with higher technological education (84.8% needed) and college graduates (82.8%); however, demand also remains high for those with a secondary and/or post-secondary degree (81.9%) or a professional qualification and/or diploma (78.6%).
Division of competences according to the ESCO classification | Source: European commission 2022
A trend, which will continue for several years attributable, not only to European actions and measures to support the economy, but also to the overwhelming technological innovation we are experiencing.
Compared to other sectors, however, where labor market supply and demand struggle to meet, in sectors that need green skills the mismatch depends on the absence of people with adequate training.
For example, the degree fields with which a higher demand for green skills is associated include: civil engineering and architecture, industrial engineering, chemical-pharmaceutical, biological sciences, biotechnology and earth sciences. While among ITSs, green skills in the areas of innovative technologies for cultural heritage and activities, fashion, energy efficiency and sustainable mobility are most in demand.
What is needed, then, is to match those who already have these skills with the companies that need them.
For an ecological transition to really take place in the necessary time and manner, it is also necessary to take action on the job front, and this is precisely what Italian Exhibition Group has decided to do from the next edition of Ecomondo, making available within the event a space dedicated to Green Jobs, so that supply and demand can meet on common ground.
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Fabio Filipponi
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